{"id":13033,"date":"2026-03-10T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/13033\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:44:08","slug":"iran-says-it-arrested-foreigner-spying-for-us-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/13033\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it arrested foreigner spying for US, Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-889489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran&#8217;s<\/a> intelligence ministry has arrested a foreign national it said was conducting espionage on behalf of the United States and Israel, and acting as a proxy for two Gulf countries, state media cited the ministry as saying on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The ministry also said it had arrested 30 spies, internal mercenaries, and operational agents of Israel and the US over the past few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Iran regularly claims to arrest or execute spies working for Israel\u2019s intelligence service, Mossad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the Iranian judiciary media outlet, Mizan, Esmaeilipour was guilty of \u201cthe transfer of classified documents and information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">While it is unknown if how many Israeli spies Iran has actually caught, the Mossad has affirmed that it is operating on the ground in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">At the outbreak of the protests in the Islamic Republic late last year, the Mossad released a message confirming it was there, physically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-881733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">We are with you<\/a>,\u201d the Mossad told protesters. \u201cNot only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cIn addition, the Mossad has asked Iranians to take pictures of explosions and strikes within Iran to provide it with intelligence regarding the results of Israeli airstrikes.<\/p>\n<p>Yonah Jeremy Bob contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s intelligence ministry has arrested a foreign national it said was conducting espionage on behalf of the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1281,34,37,2478,212,92,7127,7126,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-13033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-intelligence","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mossad","12":"tag-operation-epic-fury","13":"tag-operation-roaring-lion","14":"tag-spies","15":"tag-spy","16":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116206125875759826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}